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title: "Interactions of Peruvian small-scale fisheries with threatened marine vertebrate species, including the Waved Albatross"
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# Interactions of Peruvian small-scale fisheries with threatened marine vertebrate species, including the Waved Albatross

Jeffery Mangel ([Pro Delphinus](http://www.prodelphinus.org/)) submitted his PhD thesis to the University of Exeter this February.  Data were collected from small-scale fisheries in Ecuador and Peru with seabird information appearing in Chapter 5 of the thesis (which has also appeared as an ACAP document - see below).

 Seabird bycatch was found to be high in both longline and gillnet fisheries, and included a wide range of species including the Critically Endangered Waved Albatross *Phoebastria irrorata*.  Other ACAP-listed species affected were Black-browed *Thalassarche melanophris*, Grey-headed *T. chrysostoma*, Chatham *T. eremita* and Buller's *T. bulleri* Albatrosses and White-chinned *Procellaria aequinoctialis*and Black*P. parkinsoni*Petrels.Pink-footed*Shearwaters* *Puffinus creatopus* were also killed; a species that has been identified by Chile for ACAP listing.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Waved/Waved_Albatross_flying_by_Barry_Baker.jpg)  
Waved Albatross at sea.  Photograph by Barry Baker

 **Selected References:**

 Mangel, J.C. 2012.  [Interactions of Peruvian small-scale fisheries with threatened marine vertebrate species](https://eric.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/3483/MangelJ.pdf?sequence=3).  PhD thesis, University of Exeter.  169 pp.

 Mangel, J.C., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Baquero, A., Darquea, J., Godley, B.J. & Hardesty Norris, J.  2011  *Seabird bycatch by small-scale fisheries in Ecuador and Peru*.  Sixth Meeting of Advisory Committee, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 29 August - 2 September 2011.  [ACAP SBWG-4 Doc 24](https://www.acap.aq/meeting-documents/english/working-groups/seabird-bycatch-working-group/seabird-bycatch-meeting-4/sbwg4-meeting-documents).

 John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 16 May 2012